Jefferson
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This man served as president immediately after James Madison, during the Era of Good Feelings; he also gave his name to an influential foreign policy "doctrine"
Who is James Monroe?
Clay's nickname, "the Great Compromiser," was cemented when he helped negotiate an 1820 compromise named after this state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Because Andrew Jackson attempted to win the support of everyday folks, his presidency is often referred to as the "Age of the" this two-word term
What is the common man?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Also in 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall effectively expanded the powers of the Supreme Court with this decision, which established the principle of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The War of 1812 was pretty much a stalemate between the US and Great Britain; if any group of people could accurately be described as having lost the war, it would be this group
Who are Native Americans?
Clay's policy proposals, which called for tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements like canals and roads, were known by this two-word term
What is the American System?
Jackson's most deeply-held political belief was that Indians should be removed from their land; Congress passed the Indian Removal Act during his tenure in office, which led to this tragic event
What is the Trail of Tears?
One of those new religious denominations, founded by Joseph Smith in upstate New York and later headquartered in Utah
What is the Mormon church?
What is New Jersey? (Everything is legal in New Jersey)
Two weeks after a peace treaty was signed, the US won a major battle in this southern city
What is New Orleans?
What is Maine?
Jackson's first-term VP John Calhoun of South Carolina called for his state not to enforce federal tariffs, which led to a standoff during this 1832 "crisis"
What is the nullification crisis?
Thoreau and Emerson were leaders of this literary and philosophical movement, which stressed individualism and self-reliance
What is transcendentalism?
Who are the Barbary Pirates?
The Federalist party had been out of power for quite a while before this, but it fell apart after making a bunch of ill-fated demands at the end of the war at a convention in this Connecticut city
What is Hartford?
Clay served in this influential role when he helped throw the election of 1824 to John Quincy Adams in the so-called "Corrupt Bargain"
What is Speaker of the House?
Jackson used this "system" to reward his supporters with government positions, regardless of their qualifications for the jobs
What is the spoils system?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican Congress passed this act in 1807 to cut off US trade with Britain and France; it didn't work, and was repealed two years later
What is the Embargo Act?
A sense of national unity that became prevalent after the war was exemplified by the poem "The Star-Spangled Banner," which was later set to music and became our national anthem; it was written by this man
Who is Francis Scott Key?
Clay was a part of the Great Triumvirate, three long-tenured and influential Congressmen from the three major regions of the country who dominated politics for decades; these two men, from Massachusetts and South Carolina, were the others
Who are John Calhoun and Daniel Webster?
Jackson's rise to power was aided by this change in voting laws in most states in the 1820s
What is the removal of the landholding requirement?
Among the many attempted "utopian" communities of this time period was this religious group, who were completely celibate and earned their name from their ecstatic behavior during their worship services
Who are the Shakers?